Articles: Advice & Planning

Tourism NZ Listings Updates

Tourism New Zealand recently introduced a new requirement that your business must meet your obligations under the revised Health & Safety at Work Act (HWSA) for your listing to remain active on their site, newzealand.com. All businesses with listings are required to login and accept or decline this requirement prior to 30th September 2016. Only a few days away. TNZ should have contacted you about this change.

So just a reminder, if you haven’t done this already, you should do so ASAP.

If you do not do this before 30th September, your business listing(s) will become inactive.

If you have any questions about this, please contact TNZ’s support person, Elisabeth O’Connor at email register@tnz.govt.nz
Ph DD 04 462 8000 or 021 416 027

We can also assist if need be.

General advice, Tips & Tricks, Tourism Industry News

Travelling with Technology

We have recently been travelling overseas so it was a good chance for us to see how we would use various technologies while on the road. Sorry Apple users, you have lots of different clever things you can do with Iphones, Ipads etc that we haven’t discussed here.

We travelled with

A small laptop / tablet computer (Windows)
A Samsung S5 mini Phone (Android)
A Kindle Fire 7

What we found is: Continue reading →

Browsers, General Interest, Hardware, Mobile Sites, Site Useability, Technology, Tips & Tricks, Tourism Market Info

Take Time to Review your Website

If things are quieter now (or less frantic than other times), then it is a great time to have a good look at your website and how it is performing. Do all the things you have intended to do before but were too busy to do during summer or the things that you weren’t really bothered to do. Not just your website but anything related to it and your Internet prescence.

Your website is very, very important. It represents your business to the world and in most instances, is your most valuable marketing tool. Check it out and fix or improve anything that you can.

Here are some tips and reminders of things you should check: Continue reading →

Audits, General advice, Our Services, SEO, Site Development

Users like to Talk to a Human

An article in Accom news talks about how you can capitalise on what people don’t like about OTA’s (Online Travel Agents like Booking.com).

Essentially it says that what people do not like about OTA’s is the lack of personal touch.

And how if you offer that personal touch you are more than likely going to have more people book directly with you (and save that commission most of you hate paying). That may mean by phone or email correspondence. But the experience for the client still needs to be at least adequate, and preferably exceptional. Continue reading →

General Interest, Online Travel Agents (OTAs), Tips & Tricks

6+ things we dislike about websites – useability

You may think I am being picky, but…

We have recently been researching some travel and found a number of things that make life harder for the user, and therefore less likely to make a booking with the difficult sites.

Here are some things I think web sites can do way better – in other words, what do I hate (or dislike or find really frustrating as a user?)

Note, I have focussed on accommodation but found similar frustrations with Tour companies, Tourist Information sites, Rental Car companies and other sites Continue reading →

Audits, Site Development, Site Useability, Tips & Tricks

What the heck do we do?

We have had some great compliments about our newsletter as well as a number of new clients who have built their knowledge and understanding through our articles.

It is hard to explain what we at Net Action do and how we can help but hopefully our articles help with your understanding of some issues you hadn’t even considered. And the sort of things we can assist with.

If you have any issues, concerns or aspirations for making your website perform better for you, please get in touch. We can assist with almost anything including a whole lot of things that you are probably not even aware of. Just ask what we can do for you. Or check out our services, case studies and testimonials at http://www.netaction.co.nz.

For more info just reply to this or phone Ron Egan or Sue Dorrington on 07 866 3929

Our Services, SEO, Site Development, Tips & Tricks